Marriam Bashir * Rabia Sohail ** Significance of Integrating Critical Thinking in English Language Classroom of Young Learners ABSTRACT The study takes a challenging task of integrating Critical Thinking in young learners classroom of English as second language which is the need of the hour. The problem is the gap between teaching skills and learning. This gap is increasing day by day especially in rural areas. There is an immense need to abridge this gap. In order to do so this research offers a new possibility of integrating Critical thinking in language classrooms of young learners. Our educational system should enable learners to face real life challenges. This study is aimed to measure the attitudes of primary school teachers and test the treatment of an activity of role play on the primary school EFL learners. The challenge to integrate critical thinking in students is of dual nature as at primary level learner are supposed to do higher order thinking in a foreign language. This though seems difficult, but keeping in mind that this is the right time to teach critical thinking to the learners the researchers were successful in finding the positive results of one aspect of activity based teaching/learning on the young learners. Since it depends on both teachers and students so for getting teachers’ responses survey method was employed using a questionnaire on likert scale. Quasi experimental method was used to conduct pre-test post-test experiment, using stratified random sampling. The treatment given was a role play. The results from the data gathered from the teachers showed mixed responses. The teachers’ were divided in their opinion regarding teaching thinking in English. This can hamper teaching critical thinking to EFL * Assistant Professor of English Government Degree College (W), Gulshan-e- Ravi, Lahore, Pakistan ** MPhil Applied Linguistics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan